Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chucker]

that's the hole point of scrounging.. free quality makes profit. ?? now what to do with all the free one dollar bill's? lol

 

[Whitbread]

Found a nice little area today of rock hard standing dead maple and oak all 2.5-8" diameter so no splitting needed.

Helper air bags are a godsend in the ranger!

 

[woodchip rookie]

Are the tires atleast a "D" load?

 

[Whitbread]

Sidewall says 2032lbs at 35psi. Truck weighs 4100 with me, dog, and full tank of fuel. I would need to put ~2000lbs in the bed to get anywhere near the rated load capacity. Unless I'm hauling lead ingots, a ranger bed isn't big enough to fit ~2klbs of wood

 

[Cowboy254]

Well, I don't have as much scrounging experience as many of youse guys, but this was a new one on me. Spring has sprung down here in Georgia, with afternoon temps in the 80s the last two days and a fair bit of rain sprinkled in here and there, so things are leafing out quickly. Today walking by the wood stacks, this willow round I hadn't yet split that came from a storm damaged tree I took down about four months ago on my property caught my eye. It has sprouted limbs, and now has leaves growing off those limbs. I guess it's not dry enough to burn yet...

I had the same thing happen when I cut some green blue gum back in May and then in September, pieces started growing.



I planted one piece to see if it would grow a new tree then accidentally mowed it and that was the end of that. These guys in the shed tried but couldn't take root in the concrete floor of the woodshed. Quitters.



After one summer in the shed, they're all dry and clanky and ready to burn. They were all small branch pieces and I split them all, even the 2 inch bits. The woodshed has ironstone coloured corrugated iron walls and you can feel the heat radiating inside even on a cool day like today. I'm taking this load down to my brother in Melbourne. He likes the small stuff and burns it one piece at a time with the air intake down low and the fan on. I'd hate to see what his flue looks like. At least all the stuff I give him is bone dry so it won't be quite as bad.

 

[square1]

a ranger bed isn't big enough to fit ~2klbs of wood

Sure it is! You just gotta stack it higher

 

[Whitbread]

Sure it is! You just gotta stack it higher

Bahahaha, alright, you got me there. I could build sides and stack it sky high. I'm purposely not going to so the temptation/possibility is never there

 

[Picaso]

That's awesome, nice locust .
That's a huge locust tree, do you get a lot that size down there.
Also please return my wheel chock .

After talking with a few scrounging wood thread "members" this week I figured I was overdue for a stop in here.
I hope everyone is doing great. I'll post a few pictures later.
Have a good day guys.

Hey sorry about that- where do I need to send your chock?

Sometimes they get big but normally I see 20" dbh or smaller forest trees w tight growth rings- they normally die out. This one had a rotton branch 20' up but was healthy all the way down from there to the butt.

This locust was not scrounged because everybody thought it had poison ivy all over it. Turned out to be virginia creeper - mostly (scratch).

 

[chipper1]

Hey sorry about that- where do I need to send your chock?

Sometimes they get big but normally I see 20" dbh or smaller forest trees w tight growth rings- they normally die out. This one had a rotton branch 20' up but was healthy all the way down from there to the butt.

This locust was not scrounged because everybody thought it had poison ivy all over it. Turned out to be virginia creeper - mostly (scratch).

Please send it to 49331 USPS, put on the box the guy who ships all the saws AKA Brett, it will get to me LOL.
Same here, I just pushed one over last weekend in the area I am clearing for a pole barn that was about 85' and 14-15.
I like my locust, and don't give it up as most all of it I have gotten comes from my property. I was pulling some wood out of my big pile of splits to fill a bin and found some locust in there, straight into the house it went lol.

 

[chipper1]

Bahahaha, alright, you got me there. I could build sides and stack it sky high. I'm purposely not going to so the temptation/possibility is never there

Howdy neighbor.
Bring that bad little ranger down here and well get it loaded with a couple green red oak logs and have it over 2k .
Nice load by the way .

 

[chipper1]

Saw sold last night. I was playing basketball in a men's league and when I got back home I had messsages from two guys just minutes apart wanting it.

Now that I watch the video again I regret selling it lol.

Need to remind myself I have six saws on the bench plus two more local ones I want to buy.

Glad you got it sold Steve.
Told you you'd want it back, but I'm not sure that video would have made me want it back.

 

[svk]

Sold the 241 last night. Need to order up my XL-103 parts and get that guy rolling soon.

It actually feels good to rehome a few saws that I truthfully wasn't going to use much. Now I won't feel bad dropping coin on a few models that I really want to add to the collection.

 

[chipper1]

Sold the 241 last night. Need to order up my XL-103 parts and get that guy rolling soon.

It actually feels good to rehome a few saws that I truthfully wasn't going to use much. Now I won't feel bad dropping coin on a few models that I really want to add to the collection.

It does feel good to sell a couple to replace them with a few.
Glad you got them sold.

 

[Ted Jenkins]

Found a nice little area today of rock hard standing dead maple and oak all 2.5-8" diameter so no splitting needed.

Helper air bags are a godsend in the ranger!

I have a regular cab ranger. It routinely hauls more than a ton with side boards. Went to the wrecking yard and bought another set of ranger springs then took the overloads and main leaf off. With those doubled to the original it acts bullet proof until the rear end lets go. Thanks

 

[woodchip rookie]

At that point tires would seriously be a concern. I think you can get atleast D loads for 15" rims?

 

[chipper1]

I have a regular cab ranger. It routinely hauls more than a ton with side boards. Went to the wrecking yard and bought another set of ranger springs then took the overloads and main leaf off. With those doubled to the original it acts bullet proof until the rear end lets go. Thanks

My BIL up in Greenville has one, that thing has hauled a lot of firewood. When I first saw your picture I did a double take as I thought he was on here now lol.
I used to build a lot of s10's with v8's and the rear ends were the weak link. When one would go I'd buy one with a blown motor or trans and then part it out, right before I was going to scrap it I'd pull the rear end and swap it out.

At that point tires would seriously be a concern. I think you can get atleast D loads for 15" rims?

Your correct, I've got some on my trailer.
I used the Japanese racing jack to install them.

 

[dancan]

Now that I've got the powerline corridor cut I'm back in scrounge mode for the next fix of wood lol
Well , not really , since I knew this property pretty well I knew where there were a couple of nice leaning spruce so I had asked the landowner if I could have them , no problem he said
They're well hidden in there .

But easy to see as you get closer .

And

2 nice spruce about 16" at the butt .
I ended up with 2 maple , 2 spruce and 2 fir

It was a good couple of hours this afternoon

 

[woodchip rookie]

Japanese. Racing jack.

Thats funny.

 

[Wowzer]

Got out today and cut up some tops. ash, thinking maple some Elm. And one at the bottom looks like cherry no?

This is just the front 50 with I'm thinking probably 50-75 trees dropped around the sides into the field the some in the back they put some in the river bed.

 

[cantoo]

Auction sale today and a new Stihl 170 without the case sold for over $300 before buyers premium and taxes. Guess this should be in then WTF thread.
Bought some stuff but only wood thing was I bought another bucket truck bucket, sooner or later I will just buy the whole truck. I bought a20x20 party tent to put firewood in but my wife has already claimed it for parties, knew I should have bought them both. I'll likely fill it with my wood crates next fall anyway.